Word: alien
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Christmas. However, we are determined to track down huge amounts of money which went to Washington, and we have asked the FBI to help us. Some $19 million was spent by the ex-Shah's secret police [SAVAK] in 1976-77. The FBI wants to know whether the Alien Registration Act has been violated, and we want to know what SAVAK Chief Mansur Rafizadeh did with $8 million in 1976. There's no record of how it was spent or who got it. Another $11 million was transferred to the embassy during the imperial couple...
...language difficulties and transportation, Soviet officialdom worried aloud about sinister influences. The chief of the Moscow City Communist Party, Politburo Member Viktor Grishin, said Muscovites should be cordial to visitors, but he exhorted them to "stress the advantages of the Soviet way of life ... and repulse the propaganda of alien ideas and principles...
...vast sexual appetite and his zest for orgies-which have been amply documented by historians. But the book seemingly has other and more unsavory functions. One is to encourage the xenophobia that still has a strong hold on the many Russian chauvinists in the elite, who believe that alien forces have caused their homeland's troubles down through the ages. One handy target is the German-born Alexandra, who is described in the novel as a featherbrained traitor to Russia. Pikul's fictional Tsar Alexander III is quoted as saying of his future daughter...
Strictly speaking, Mork & Mindy may not be political, but neither is the show "almost entirely innocent of meaning." Its overall message is not only that alien is acceptable, but that different is endearing...
...boat people, all that lies in the distant future. The most they can expect now is a sort of least common denominator of human life: a stretch of sand on which to beach a leaky boat, and the prospect, however remote, of a new life in an alien land...